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CVE-2022-20845

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-20845 is a medium-severity memory leak vulnerability affecting the TL1 function in Cisco Network Convergence System (NCS) 4000 Series. An authenticated, local attacker can exploit this by issuing specific TL1 commands, causing the TL1 process to consume excessive memory. This leads to a denial of service (DoS) as the Resource Monitor restarts or shuts down memory-intensive processes. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
CiscoCisco IOS XR Software
6.5.25, 6.5.26, 6.5.28, 6.5.29, 6.5.31, 6.5.32CNA affecteddefault unknown

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.0MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.5
Impact Score
4.0
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.18%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
7.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0018 is in the 45th percentile among its peer group of 3,720 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

sec.cloudapps.cisco.com / security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-iosxr-bng-Gmg5Gxt
sec.cloudapps.cisco.com / security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-ncs4k-tl1-GNnLwC6